Re: qmail?

[Dima <dima@eris.dev.null>]

>>Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
... However, how can I tell the
 >Debian packaging system that I have an undebianized MTA? Many Debian
 >packages depend on a message transfer agent, and just removing smail
 >in favour of undebianized qmail will generate _lots_ of dependency
 >problems.

You can a) hit SHIFT+Q in dselect every time to override dependecies
or b) install a dummy package that provides MTA.  Search for messages
about equivs package in the list archive.


 >
 >All binary distributions of qmail must be authorized. The same goes to
 >modified source distributions. I am assuming that this is one reason
 >for the fact that qmail is in experimental rather than in non-free.

My impression was that it's in experimental because it has no license.
At least when I last visited the website it hadn't -- there only was
a page on how software should be free.  

 >None of my acquaintances and friends who use pirated MS software have
 >been arrested.

Just kidding.  
I assume debian is authorised to distribute a pre-compiled binary of
qmail.  As for modifications to the source, all I can see is a symlink
from /var/qmail/control to /etc/qmail.  In other words, I doubt that
qmail package violates Bernstein's copyright.

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